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Temperature Chambers for R&D

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As the world consumes its more easily extracted energy resources, industry has been forced to advance to some of the least hospitable places on earth in search of sequestered energy supplies. In recent years in particular, interest in recovering oil, natural gas and other hydrocarbons from beneath frozen tundra in Canada, the deepest depths of the Gulf of Mexico and other out-of-the-way places has surged. Arguments about the sustainability and ethics of these kinds of exploration and extraction continue. What is not in dispute is that if these efforts are Continue reading →

Humidity Chambers, Temperature Chambers and other Test Chambers in the Space Program

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The manned space program has been and continues to be among humanity’s most shining accomplishments. The efforts made by all of the participating nations are without precedent in history; never before have people from all over the planet joined together to try and expand the horizon of possibility for our species. Under harsh conditions and in the face of great personal peril, a community of visionaries has worked tirelessly, often without significant recognition, to explore space, to understand the earth’s origins and its place in the universe and ultimately to gain a better Continue reading →

Environmental Chambers: Essential Testing Tools

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Industry thrives on predictability. Environmental chambers help industrial researchers determine how a product is likely to behave when subject to certain conditions. This process helps industries anticipate problems with their products and improve them based on what they observe during research in environmental chambers. Environmental chambers can provide researchers with Continue reading →

Understanding Environmental Test Chambers

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Cincinnati Sub-Zero Environmental Test ChambersTest chambers image courtesy of Cincinnati Sub Zero.

At a given moment, all manner of fascinating and bizarre experiments could be under way at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. The Space Center, which has been the seat of the United States’ manned space program since 1961, celebrates its golden anniversary this year. JSC occupies itself with many tasks, and among those tasks is the conduction of experiments that test the performance of equipment in Continue reading →

AGREE Chambers: Then and Now

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It’s a safe bet that every product that is shipped from one place to another during the course of its lifespan will be subject to some amount of vibration. In fact, there’s no need to bet. Vibration is a reality for every product that meets that criteria, and that’s also true for a wide variety of industrial equipment that is never moved from one place to another. This is because almost any machine that involves the use of Continue reading →

Thermal Shock Chambers Make Industry Safer

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Espec Thermal Shock Chamber

Thermal shock chamber image courtesy of ESPEC North America.

There are a surprising number of contexts in which products must be resistant to thermal shock. Just as a reminder: thermal shock is the stress or damage to an object caused by a sudden, dramatic change in ambient temperature. Most of those contexts have arisen as a result of the advancement of our technology and our ambition. Just a few examples include flight, space flight, underwater research, manufacturing Continue reading →

Salt Spray Chambers: Fighting Corrosion

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Hastest Solutions Salt Spray Chamber

Salt spray chamber image courtesy of Hastest Solutions.

It’s sometimes hard to believe that salt, a seemingly benign and harmless substance, can wreak such havoc on so many different kinds of materials. In cold climates we watch how it corrodes our cars’ undercarriages, damages heavy equipment, stains pavement and causes other kinds of damage during and after winter. In coastal areas, salt spray and saline fog can also cause corrosion to vehicles, equipment and even buildings. In order to develop more Continue reading →

Walk-In Chambers: The Largest Test Chambers

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Because of the wide variety of different experiments and tests that are conducted in environmental test chambers, the variety of available chambers must be equally varied. Tests of pharmaceutical products’ resistance to humidity or high temperatures must be conducted in small chambers, tests of an engine’s performance in very low temperatures must be conduced in a medium-sized chamber and tests on the performance of very large equipment must be performed in chambers that Continue reading →

Altitude Chambers: Taking Research to New Heights

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Russells Techincal Products Altitude Chamber

Altitude chamber image courtesy of Russells Technical Products.

Altitude chambers, which are also known as hypobaric chambers, have been invaluable in simulated high-altitude research and in other research related to the affects of extreme or variable atmospheric pressure levels on humans. They are also often used for the treatment of ailments related to those conditions, diving and high altitude aviation in particular. They are somewhat different from other environmental test chamber varieties in that they are often used to perform tests on humans, though Continue reading →

Benchtop Chambers: Small Scale Testing Tools

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Environmental testing is a very important process in many different sectors of industry and commerce. It is used to help professionals understand how their products will behave when exposed to conditions of extreme heat or cold, humidity or dryness, low and high air pressure and many other conditions. The equipment used to facilitate these tests ranges greatly in terms of size, capabilities and applications. In some cases, this equipment can be extremely large, such as in the case of test chambers used Continue reading →